Christine Eyene
Christine Eyene is an art historian and curator. She is Co-Director of Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) Gallery / Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University, and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool. From 2012 to March 2022, she was Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire where she worked on Making Histories Visible, an interdisciplinary visual arts research project led by multiple award-winner artist Lubaina Himid CBE RA. In this framework, she developed new research into feminism, sound art, and photography. In 2023 she completed her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, on the relationship between African literature and visual representation in the work of South African photographer George Hallett (1942-2020) under the supervision of Professor Annie E. Coombes.
Eyene’s areas of research and curatorial practice encompass contemporary art from a global perspective, with an interest in African and Diaspora arts, feminism, photography, sound art and traditional heritage. Her practice also engages with socially-engaged initiatives, urban culture, new media, music, design, and architecture.
Her recent exhibitions include: ‘What the Mountain Has Seen’, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool (Feb – Nov 2025); ‘The Plant that Stowed Away’, Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, Liverpool (Feb – May 2025); ‘George Hallett: Home and Exile’, Clémentine de la Feronnière, Paris (March-May 2025, as part of Centre Pompidou Échos “Paris noir” programme); ‘Where to Land the Eye’, Konsthal, Landskrona (September 2024, as part of Landskrona Foto Festival); ‘Seeds and Souls’, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (Sept. 2023 – Feb. 2024).
Published essays include: ‘Where an artist finds freedom: South African Exiled Artists in Paris’ in Alicia Knock (ed.), ‘Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950 – 2000’. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2025 and ‘Tracey Rose: Within and Beyond (Black) Feminism’ in Koyo Kouoh (ed.), ‘Tracey Rose: Shooting Down Babylon’. Cape Town: Zeitz MoCAA, 2022
Since 2021, she has been developing Bikoka Art Project, a new art and educational initiative dedicated to young people, women, and young creatives in the village of Bikoka (Lolodorf, Cameroon). Situated at the border of an evergreen forest, BAP focuses on the harmony between art, community, and nature. It also delves into the history and memory of the land.
Christine Eyene sits on selection panels and advisory committees. In 2024, she was invited to join the Artistic Council of Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. In 2022 she was on the selection committee of The London Open 2022 (Whitechapel Gallery), Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2022, and member of jury of the Turner Prize 2022.
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